Century 21 Manausa & Associates - Tallahassee Real Estate
I’m meeting with a long time friend today to discuss his desire to build a house in a certain NE Tallahassee neighborhood.
For any long-time readers of the Tallahassee Real Estate Blog, you know that I have reported about the large new construction premium you must pay in this buyer’s market, and how I strongly advise you to find an existing home for your purchase.
But there are some reasons why you really should build a house right now if you fit into a certain category.
One question we get from out of town homebuyers quite often relates to the calculation of property tax in Tallahassee and Leon County, Florida.
Everybody knows that part of being a homeowner includes having to carry your share of the local property tax which supports the city, county, and other public services.
Calculating property tax for the potential purchase of a home for sale in Tallahassee is fairly simple, once you understand all the rules.
One of my favorite reports to pull each month is the Year Over Year Home Sales Report. It is very simple, it compares the current month with the corresponding month from a year ago in order to see changes in the real estate market. Well, the Year Over Year Home Sales Report has been putting a [...]
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Have you recently used the Zillow Real Estate Value Tool and find yourself curious about its accuracy? In my recent article about home valuations, I discussed some of the benefits and pitfalls of using an online home valuation tool. But apparently my “dusting” of the subject caused a few people to want to know more. Specifically, [...]
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I have long advised my friends and customers to consider working with a company that provides credit repair for homebuyers. With the thousands of closings of short sales in Tallahassee over the past few years, there is a huge back-log of people who historically had great credit but now are dealing with below-average credit scores. [...]
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We get a lot of reader questions each week after we publish the Tallahassee Real Estate Newsletter, but the question we see most frequently is “What is my home worth.” I suspect that as the real estate market starts to move in an upwards direction, we will start to see some trapped homeowners anxious to [...]
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Real estate market cycles come, and real estate market cycles go, but are you curious at all about how to use an understanding of current market conditions to make money in real estate investing? I have been discussing the formation of a real estate hedge fund (or reit) with investors for the past few years, [...]
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Everybody loves a sale, so why not a Tallahassee condos sale featuring some of the best buys on downtown condominium units that we might ever see? The “attached” housing market is beginning to recover nicely, and since the market bottom is likely behind us for good, homebuyers should be scouring the market for some great [...]
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If you are keeping an eye on the market for Tallahassee high end homes, you’ll be happy to know that there is no sign of weakening for the most expensive homes in town. Though there still exists a glut of high end homes for sale in the Tallahassee MLS, sales have actually grown fractionally over the [...]
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There is a critical factor that should weigh heavily on your choice of a listing agent when you sell your home, and I bet it would never even cross your mind (unless you read this of course ). I have written numerous articles about what to do when you need to sell your home, and [...]
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